Verse 2.4.175

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.175:

भगवद्-भजनानन्द-वैचित्री-जननी हि सा ।
नाना-विधो भगवतो विशेषो व्यज्यते यया ॥ १७५ ॥

bhagavad-bhajanānanda-vaicitrī-jananī hi sā |
nānā-vidho bhagavato viśeṣo vyajyate yayā || 175 ||

bhagavat-bhajana–of devotional service to the Lord; ānanda–of bliss; vaicitrī–of the varieties; jananī–the generator; hi–certainly; sā–she; nānā-vidhaḥ–many forms; bhagavataḥ–of the Lord; viśeṣaḥ–special; vyajyate–is manifested; yayā–by whom.

This śakti manifests all of the Lord’s incarnations and Their distinct characteristics, and because of this, she is known as the mother of the varieties of pleasure of bhajana. In other words, she expands the bliss of loving service to the Lord in ever-fresh forms.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

In the previous two verses, Śrī Nārada explained the svarūpa-lakṣaṇa (intrinsic characteristics) of Bhagavān’s potency, Lakṣmī. Now in two verses, beginning here with bhagavat, he describes her taṭastha-lakṣaṇa (marginal, or extrinsic, characteristics).

He says, “She is the mother of the various sweet wonders that are relished in the bliss of devotional service. Although that śakti, Lakṣmī, being similar to sac-cid-ānanda Śrī Bhagavān, is nondifferent from Him, still, she manifests the wonderful variety of differences among the Lord’s devotees. Bhagavān and the jīva are both sac-cid-ānanda, sharing the same spiritual reality known as brahma-tattva. At the same time, however, jīva-brahma (the individual soul) and Parabrahman (Supreme Soul) are different, just as the sun and sunshine are different.

“That same potency, Lakṣmī, also manifests the different stages of bhakti–sādhana-bhakti (the stage of practice), bhāva-bhakti (the initial stage of pure love of God), and prema-bhakti (fully manifest pure love of God). In addition, she manifests the various special rasas, or loving relationships with the Lord–neutrality, servitorship, friendship, parental affection, and other mellows. In this way, she constantly increases the novelty and sweetness of the bliss of worshiping and serving the Lord.

“Bhagavān, who is Parabrahman, is one without a second, but He manifests in multiple forms through her auspices. She is the agent for the beauty and sweetness of His every form and for the variegatedness of all His wonderful pastimes.”